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Hi, I rescued a Mac IIsi today. I opened it up, and it is missing its hard drive. The battery has also leaked, corroded some areas here and there on the motherboard. A small SMD cap near the battery also fell off, but it is not broken, so maybe after the cleanup, I can solder it back on. It...

Hi, A while ago I got myself a G5, which required a reflow of the GPU. I did that, and now the machine works just fine. I have one concern though. The "Memory Controller" has a very high operating temp. We're talking close to 80c and even more. At least that is the temp reported by Temperature...

I am having some difficulties with my Powermac 6100. It does the what the below says, and then it does nothing more. It chimes, but goes no further. No video output (The CRT remains in standby) I have fiddled around with the DIP-switch on the Mac-to-VGA adapter, but it does not make a...

Here I go again, this time I found a Pismo Powerbook, with 2 chargers. It appeared dead at first, then after unplugging the backup battery, the machine booted into OS X. Asks for user & password, so I will have to wait until I get home so that I can boot from the CD and do a password reset...

Hi, Today I found a complete PowerMac 4400, and it has the DOS card inside as well. Along with it I picked up a printer (Canon printer with Apple branding), the keyboard and the mouse. I also got the special split cable for the display for use between the mac and the PC card. The monitor was...

This is apparently the time of the year that keeps on giving, as my find today was an original iMac. I quickly tested it and it powers on and boots to Mac OS 9. I will test is more once I bring it home from work. It is in good condition, but it has a stupid etched "University blahblahblah" on...

Hi, This story has both a good side and a bad side. My wife works at a local newspaper, and she told me that they were clearing out some old equipment from the building. One day, when picking her up from work, I went inside and saw two large cages with at least 20+ Macs in them! There were...

My cousin, who works in the graphics design business, gave me a nice Sawtooth a few days ago. It has 768 MB RAM, a 30 GB HDD, 2 graphics cards (1 AGP and 1 PCI) as well as a ZIP drive. I've just installed 10.4 on it, and it runs great! I may Xpostfacto leopard into a 2nd partition just for...

I just found this mac while I was throwing away some old boxes. Long live the e-Waste bins in large office buildings! It still has its original 250MB HDD and the SCSI CD-ROM. Usually HDD's are removed from old stuff when thrown away, so I guess I got lucky with this one. It powers on to the...

I recently got 3 G4 14" iBooks, but all of them have issues. - One is a 1.33 Mhz, Wasted screen, missing parts and the motherboard powers on but displays no video. - One is a 933Mhz one. It had the ATI graphics chip issue. I heatgunned it, and now it no longer displays any video at all. - The...

Hi, I was just given a nice SE/30, and it has a network adapter too. It boots up nicely, although a little noisy on the HDD side. I have not browser the system contents yet (Because my ADB keyboards and mice are at work), but I was told it has been used to convert between different storage...

Hi, I just got myself a decent Powerbook 12" (The 867Mhz variant), and so far I have only managed to get it to boot twice, with several (in the tens) attempts in between. When powering on the system, one of the 4 scenarios below occur: - Power on and boots fine (Only happened 2 times out of...

I have just gotten me a TAM, and on Wikipedia it stated that you can run OS X with a G3 upgrade and xpostfacto 4 but with some limitations. Question is: Is it actually possible to run OS X on a TAM? What are the mentioned limitations? and, did someone here already try it? I remember somewhere...

Hi all, I just got my TAM. I picked it up from the post office yesterday. The packaging job was excellent, and everything arrived it great working condition. It has a sonnet crescendo G3 upgrade, and it also has a PCI USB card and the apple TP network adaptor. It also came with a bunch of...

During my semi-weekly walk around the area to check out the e-waste rooms at the nearby uni, I found a complete Apple IIc. It has the monitor, extra floppy drive, home-made serial-to-paralell box and the composite cable and the power supply. It came with 2 floppies, "AppleWorks" and a second...

I just got this TiBook for free from a fellow colleague. Initially it was not working (Red light on the PSU connector) but after a PMU reset (Disconnect internal battery) it works fine. I also had to fix the shielding connector for the DVD-drive, as the machine locked up when using the DVD...

Hi, Look what I found in the recycle room at work :-) A Macintosh SE, complete with its keyboard and mouse. After a quick cleanup, it looks good and works fine!

Hi all, I am currently working on repairing the keyboard that came with my Macintosh 512k(e). Four of they keys have broken off, and one of the keyswitches is broken apparently beyond repair. The best fix would be to replace the keyswitch, but I have not found a good source for those yet. ePay...

Hi, A while ago I got hold of a nice little Macintosh Classic. It works, but the internal HDD does not spin up when connected to the internal PSU (It spins but stops), and the monitor has a shaky picture, and with every mouse click the screen contracts a little. Same for floppy reads (even...